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Panunzio (Constantine) collection of material on Japanese American Incarceration
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Constantine Panunzio collection of material on Japanese American incarceration
Creator:
Panunzio, Constantine M. (Constantine Maria), 1884-1964
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1636
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1853-1945
Date (bulk): 1942-1943
Abstract: The collection consists of UCLA Professor Constantine Panunzio's collection of printed materials such as articles, clippings,
newsletters, pamphlets and reports relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance
using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Constantine Panunzio Collection of Material on Japanese American incarceration (Collection Number
1636). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ralph P. Merritt, 1946. Gift of Bradford Smith, 1952.
The materials in Collection 1636 were originally part of Collection 131, a collection of material on Japanese American incarceration,
which was itself extracted from Collection 122, the Manzanar War Relocation Center Records (formerly titled the U.S. War Relocation
Authority Archive) in 1971. Within a few years, materials from Collection 131 were dispersed into three additional collections:
the present collection, entitled the Constantine Panunzio collection of material on Japanese American incarceration (Collection
1636); the Lincoln Kanai papers (Collection 1637); and the Bradford Smith papers (Collection 1638). The name of Constantine
Panunzio was formally incorporated into the collection title in 2005, according to the papers' original provenance within
the Manzanar War Relocation Center records.
Processed by Christen Sasaki, with assistance from Laurel McPhee, in the Center for Primary Research and Training, 2005.
Description was updated by Rishi Guné and Kuhelika Ghosh as part of a 2019 CFPRT Redescription Project. Euphemistic terms
such as "internment" were updated to reflect preferred terminology outlined in the
Power of Words Handbook from the Japanese American Citizen's League.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232767
Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) was born in Molfetta, Italy. He arrived in the United States in 1902. He received his A.B.
from Wesleyan University in 1911 and an M.A. in 1912. He then enrolled in the Boston University School of Theology and earned
the S.T.B. in 1914. He served as pastor in several Methodist churches in Massachusetts and he was superintendent of Social
Service House, Boston, from 1915-1917. From 1917 to 1918 he served as general organizer of the YMCA on the Italian front during
World War I. In 1925 he earned the Ph.D. degree at the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, and was appointed
Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA, in 1931, where he remained until he retired as Professor of Sociology in 1951. His
published works include three books and two research monographs. During 1931-1933, Panunzio was President of the Pacific South-western
Academy, and during 1934-1935 was President of the Pacific Sociological Society. In 1939, he participated in the founding
of the antifascist political association, the Mazzini Society. In 1940, he was designated by the New York World's Fair Committee
as among the foreign-born who have made outstanding contributions to American culture. In 1961 he received the Wesleyan University
Distinguished Alumnus award.
The collection consists of UCLA Professor Constantine Panunzio's collection of printed materials such as articles, clippings,
newsletters, pamphlets and reports relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Incarceration
camps represented in the collection are Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Manzanar, California; Merced Assembly Center, California;
and the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California. The collection also contains a mid-nineteenth century map of Japan.
Manzanar War Relocation Center records (Collection 122). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Japanese American Research Project collection of material about Japanese in the United States (Collection 2010). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Maps -- Japan.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Panunzio, Constantine M. (Constantine Maria), 1884-1964